HB5415 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5415

Introduced , by Rep. Darren Bailey - Grant Wehrli - Amy Grant

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

305 ILCS 5/4-8a new

Amends the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that no person shall knowingly use or accept cash assistance benefits provided under the Article for the purchase or sale of any firearm or firearms ammunition. Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt any rules necessary to implement the amendatory Act, including rules and practices to prevent recipients of cash assistance from accessing their cash assistance benefits at automated teller machines or point of sale terminals that are located in a store or other establishment in which the principal place of business is the sale of firearms or ammunitions.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public aid.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by adding Section 4-8a as follows:

(305 ILCS 5/4-8a new)

Sec. 4-8a. Firearms purchase prohibited using TANF benefits.

(a) As used in this Section, "firearm" and "firearm ammunition" shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms in Section 31A-0.1 of the Criminal Code of 2012.

(b) No person shall knowingly use or accept cash assistance benefits provided under this Article for the purchase or sale of any firearm or firearms ammunition. The Department shall adopt any rules necessary to implement this Section, including rules and practices to prevent recipients of cash assistance from accessing their cash assistance benefits at automated teller machines or point of sale terminals that are located in a store or other establishment in which the principal place of business is the sale of firearms or ammunitions.